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A black hole relative to when? We're missing the other six parts of the Iliad epic. The play which beat Oedipus Rex at a Grecian theater festival has been lost
by mustacheemperor 10y ago
A black hole relative to when? We're missing the other six parts of the Iliad epic. The play which beat Oedipus Rex at a Grecian theater festival has been lost forever. Incredibly minuscule amounts of recorded history have been preserved until recently.
- Spooky23 10y agoYou can access the public and private papers of most US Presidents, for example. We have letters from US Civil War soldiers and immigrants that are important primary sources. My wife worked for a municipal water utility which possesses very old (early 19th century) records that shed light into how certain developments in the city's history progressed. Today that equivalent information is all electronic and most will be inaccessible in a decade or less. Getting insight into how people thought in the past will be harder for this era. Letters are replaced by electronic communication that is difficult to save and store casually. Things like annual reports are electronic only. Lost Greek works weren't lost because they weren't recorded. They were destroyed by the fall of that civilization and the wars and chaos that followed.
- jjuel 10y agoSo there won't be any wars or fall of civilizations anymore that could destroy even physical work? We are one crazy world leader from everything being bombed into oblivion. I don't think recording things physically is going to preserve anything in that case.
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